Why Do People Seem to Think Steroids Were Invented in 1995?
Question by Jon Red Sox Go Hawks!: Why do people seem to think steroids were invented in 1995?
Players have used PED’s for decades. Steroids have been a part of sports since the 1940’s and used in baseball heavily since the 60’s. Why all of a sudden do all these people get the idea that drug use in baseball is new? People forget all the coke guys were using in the 70’s and 80’s in addition to all the other uppers and roids. The increased home rome totals of the 90’s has a lot to do with the relief pitching in the 90’s being weak because of all the expansion teams and the fact that the ’94 strike lead to starters being used in less and less innings. Are people seriously this stupid you do not remember the steroid question being brought up in the past????????? There have been PED’s for more than 60 years and drug testing is around 5 years old so how do we know Hank Aaron, Jim Rice, Wade Boggs or any other guy wasn’t using if he retired before the mandatory random testing began we have no way of knowing.
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